Long before we were anything
resembling a monkey; we were not quite rats, not quite rabbits but in
ways we acted like both.
Without a concept of time, we knew
nothing of “future” or “past” even in an abstract way.
We knew nothing of birth or death, save
for being simple creatures fulfilling a set of compulsive desires in
order to survive through it.
This set of primal behaviors became at
the toll of countless ancestral relatives having been killed because
they were too slow, too dumb, couldn't see or hear well enough
Or maybe they were too weak or cared
too much about saving its mate; currently engaged in battle with a
lion or other manner of large predator.
Killed due to physical and behavioral
nuances of a biology so finite, that it would take millions of years
of accumulation to measure as a “change”.
… at least most of the time.
One of the things that developed
rather quickly in us was our cognition, higher brain function.
Our concepts of time
Our understanding of birth and death.
Our theoretical mind; ability to relate
and guess what others might know and think fairly accurately.
Our Hypothetical Minds; Works of
fiction in religion.
Language, Visual, and representative
abstract forms of identity → “Art”
Then that identity evolved; From family
groups like packs...
To clans...
To tribes...
To cities
To city-states
To countries
To empires.
And our technology evolved from
non-verbal expression...
to spoken Language
To picture language
To phonetic language
To scrolls
To books
To Data storage containing millions of
terabytes of three dimensional representations of physical reality
and previously unknown secrets of the universe.
Now we have hit the crescendo; The
internet is the first technology where communication is interpersonal
and instant. Information spreads so fast, that its hard to contain.
But how does all this technology affect
us?
Where will we go?
Where will we go?
For better or worse; Will we rot out of
existence?
Will we forget how to be alive at the
cost of technology which moves us?
no...
Pay attention to the voices – Look
how they argue with each other.
This is not some horrible by-product
of technologies influence. It is them learning to communicate
how to agree
How to disagree
how to connect
and how to move...
In time you will not need to worry.
Let them fight and protect all their
speech; these children need to learn how to hit each other safely.
